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title: A bot gives a brilliant answer about the sky, then a muddled one abo… — Sounding right and being right · tree and pragmatics
description: A bot gives a brilliant answer about the sky, then a muddled one about your village. Why the difference? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 3 «Sounding right and being right» of the AI course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wr
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# Test 7 · ★ · Sounding right and being right

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A bot gives a brilliant answer about the sky, then a muddled one about your village. Why the difference?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bot · **What happens:** give, muddle · **To what, where:** brilliant answer

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 3 «Sounding right and being right» of the AI course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A bot gives a brilliant answer about the sky, then a muddled one about your village.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:3-sounding-right-and-being-right:t7:1
# text = A bot gives a brilliant answer about the sky, then a muddled one about your village.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	muddled	muddle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | a bot | a brilliant answer |  |  |  | about the sky | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |
| 2 | **muddle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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*Sentence 2:* Why the difference?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:3-sounding-right-and-being-right:t7:2
# text = Why the difference?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The bot was tired after the sky answer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:3-sounding-right-and-being-right:t7:o1:1
# text = The bot was tired after the sky answer
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the bot |  |  |  | after the sky answer | tired *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Lots of good text about the sky, little about your village

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:3-sounding-right-and-being-right:t7:o2:1
# text = Lots of good text about the sky, little about your village
1	Lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Your village is a secret

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:3-sounding-right-and-being-right:t7:o3:1
# text = Your village is a secret
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Your village | a secret |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bots dislike small villages and answer them badly on purpose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:3-sounding-right-and-being-right:t7:o4:1
# text = Bots dislike small villages and answer them badly on purpose
1	Bots	bot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dislike	dislike	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	answer	answer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dislike** | present | Bots | small villages |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer village=Stimulus |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | Bots *not said here* |  | villages *= village* | purpose |  | badly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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